MAY GIVEAWAY!!!! Julie G Frosted Gumdrop Polishes

Hey everyone! I bought a couple sets of Julie G Frosted Gumdrops from Groupon at the end of April and I want to give you the chance to have your own set! Giveaway is open to the U.S. only.

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The first color is Tangerine Dream

Orange is one of my favorite colors and this came out so sparkly and jelly like, it really looked like candy. This is three thin coats of orangey goodness (it reminds me of orange soda)

This next color is Sugar Rush

This is only two coats! Its more opaque probably due to the darker color. This is one of my favorites from the set... its my kind of color, a reddish orange!
Also I cant stop singing this song from Wreck-It Ralph (just the English part) S-U-G-A-R Jump into your racing car! Sugar Rush!

This next color is Hot Cinnamon

This red a dream to apply, its also probably the fastest drying (and quite possible the only picture of a dry polish on my blog). These three are more of a jelly/crelly type of polish. They totally look like gumdrops in that aspect. The next three are metallic definitely.

This next one is called Crushed Candy

This is my other favorite from this set! I LOVE this color (its more of a lavender magenta) and consistency. It went on smoothly and opaque in two coats. Its a really nice color and SUPER sparkley.

This color is Rock Candy

I love rock candy. Especially the pops on the cutsey wooden dowel/stick things with the nub at the end! They remind me of a childhood I never got to have (not that I didnt get to have a childhood, but more that I didnt get to have rock candy ]': ) The color is nice too... (wouldnt it be funny if I left it at that and moved on?) I feel like every set that comes out needs a teal, or has a teal (need is such a strong word). I just kind of wish the teal was one of the jellyish ones instead of the metallic, NOT that I dont like it! I do like it, I just wish it looked more like a gumdrop like the first three... also Im not huge on metallics

This last color is Blueberry Fizz, YUM!

Blueberry Fizz sounds so good... I think I'm going to grab some blueberries on my way to work. This is a great rich periwinkle-ish color. It looks great with the metallic edge and went on smooth in two coats.

Overall, I liked this collection. I have no real issues with it. Its unique enough from my other polishes and it will ease me into this texturing craze thats going on now. By that I mean, these polishes are textured, but they are a toned down jelly and metallic version of Zoya's pixie stuff. The grit isnt too intese, but it provides sparkle and dimension. If you dont win this set go out and buy some, at least Sugar Rush (♪Sugar Rush! Sugar Rush!♫) and Crushed Candy, I hear you can get them at Rite Aid.

Good Luck to you all! Please leave me some suggestions for what I should giveaway next time (so far im thinking the bubbly layla polishes IF I CAN FIND THEM DAMMIT!) But otherwise I dont know whats new and upcoming and I need a bit of help... Any suggestions would be great!

GOOD LUCK!
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Nails Inc. Edinburgh WINNER!!!

Ok people. This was the first of hopefully a couple more giveaways I would like to do bi-monthly or monthly... depending on how I feel (yes, it is all about me).

That being said I have learned a few things... Firstly, I want to make them longer... this was only a week long giveaway. I am going to try two weeks next and initially I thought if I did a giveaway every month then it would be open all month... but that seems like a hella long time. So we try two weeks next month. Next, I really want to see more promotion of the giveaway. I had a couple people repost it on their facebook, but I couldnt verify it... so I deleted those entries. If you want to repost and you leave me a link, make sure it works... or exists for longer than an hour. I may make it a daily option to repost... maybe. Le Sigh! Can anyone say "learning experience"? And lastly, I would love to hear any suggestions from you guys! I think I am still only doing U.S. mailing only... so far. I may open it up to Canada, maybe Australia (especially since I am so fond of the Aussies... my friends there used to say I was basically Australian with an American speech impediment! Oi Oi Oi), so I would like to hear suggestions more along the lines of  what kind of products, where to promote, those kinds of things. Enough of my babble...

THE WINNER IS:

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WOOT!!!!
So I clicked the "send an email" button... maybe two or three times because I expected something to happen, but nothing did... so I am going to send Kayla an email and it may be her third or fourth one from me, it may be the only one. Either way:
CONGRATULATIONS KAYLA!!!
You are the proud new owner of some Edinburgh!

Make sure to check back here next month because I am giving away a Julie G set of frosted gumdrop polish... I was looking at instagram the other day and I was saw a post from Casey (beauty101blog) about these textured gumdrop polishes available at RiteAid... of which maybe there are 5 in the Denver Metro Area (which is huge). SO since I couldnt really get my buns over to one, she mentioned a groupon about it and away I went! I then thought, why not get a set for next months giveaway since it will take about two weeks to get here anyways? SO LOOK OUT FOR THAT IN MAY!!! Im pretty excited, these will be my first Julie G polishes.

Congrats Kayla, you have 48 hours to respond to my email or I will pick another winner!

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Color Club Warhol and Nails Inc. Noho

Today is the last day to enter my giveaway!!! Go do it, and then look forward to another one for next month... it will be even better (cuz its a set!)

 

But back to the mani at hand!

So I didnt intend to do this mani at all last night. I really wanted to do a neon gradient with OPI Turquoise Shatter over the top...but I just couldnt get it to look the way that I wanted... then I thought I would do a neon yellow mani with gradient blue dots 

(OMG that wheel was a lot harder to photograph than my nails... )

But to get the yellow to stand out I had to put on white undies, and I kept hitting my fingers on the plethora of other things on my desk... so I got fed up and cleaned it all off. I almost didnt even paint them after that, I was so dejected... BUT THEN!!!! I remembered how my friend was complaining about pink nail polish (she NEVER wears pink and how she came about wearing pink polish is a longer story than even I would like to tell)... but anyways, I was telling her to "rock" the pink up a bit by adding a black accent nail and maybe some studs... at which point she confessed that every time I use little accent bits on her nails, like studs or rhinestones, she never keeps them!!! Even the "bitch" hex charm I put on her nails last time I did them...

Anywho, that conversation inspired these nails!

I love neon colors and Warhol is a great polish! Jackie-Oh! is probably my favorite neon pink that Color Club does, but these are pretty similar, enough so that you dont have to have both. This is my first time using Noho, even though I bought it so long ago. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the effect. I cant wait to go buy Soho Mews and Shoreditch Lane...

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Nails Inc. Edinburgh GIVEAWAY!!! U.S. ONLY

Sorry international readers... I need to find out more information on shipping nail polish internationally before I open a giveaway to you... I'm scared. If someone has had good or bad experiences shipping internationally you should email me about it Drama(dot)Ocelot(at)gmail.com... help me to not be afraid... or justify my fears.

Onto the POLISH!!!

So this is probably not the newest polish, but I got super excited because I hadn't seen it in any of my Sephoras until last week. I have been waiting for this feather stuff!
I decided it was also time for a giveaway, because any of you who actually read my book length posts deserve a medal... or free stuffs. I am going to try to do a little giveaway like this once every couple of months, because its really easy to just buy two of a lacquer and it will give me an incentive to stay current with trends. I never really buy the newest latest and greatest... Im usually just hunting for stuff that I like, and then I jump on the bandwagon later and act like "OMG look what I finally found out is great!" its kind of lame when you think about, try not to think about it.

So I didnt know what underwear to use with this...
I tried sans underwear

This is two to three coats of Edinburgh... I say two to three because it was two with some retouching on both the first and second coat... by the way, this is a lumpy polish...

Then tried American Apparel T-Shirt (my favorite white undies), Essie Haute as Hello (one of my favorite peachy colors that kind of matched the orange bar glitters), Ciate Cream Soda (a nice neutral light gray), Kleancolor Lake Mist (the only powdery blue shade I have... mental note: go buy a cream powder blue polish), and Orly Chocolate Martini (because I thought "Hey, why not try an intense coppery color... why not?"). Before and After

So I hate the way it looks over the copper, I like the how the orange and blue glitter pops over the white, and the glitter seems to fade over the orange and blue polish...

This is what I ended up going with!

I thought the glitter looked really nice against the gray... and I wouldve used an orange stamp but it didnt show up very well...
I think I like this polish best on its own, especially since thats when it looks the most like feathers. It does layer up pretty quickly but the only drawback is how lumpy it gets.

So what do you think? Want to win a bottle? Good Luck!

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By the way, I had to chop off all my nails because remember my last post where I talked about buffing my nails down? Yeah, well apparently you shouldnt peel your splitting nails then buff them until they are paper thin and then go partake in strenuous hand labor... apparently.

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Twelve Nails of Christmas: Day 11 GIVEAWAY!!! (Not open internationally... SORRY)

WOOT So I said I would have a giveaway because I got my first follower on Day 3 of my Christmas nails! HERE IT IS!!! I bought myself the Illamasqua Christmas Duo and I LOVE them, so I hope you will too!!!

So I didnt really do a Christmas mani... If you've been reading my blog you'll know that I am totally over this project. But I did paint both colors so that you all would know what you were getting!

Those are shots of Viridian a gorgeous shimmery blue green (or a viridian for those of you who know your colors). It applies super smooth in potentially one coat, but I did two. Very smooth, very nice formula, very unique color!

Glitterati is a beautiful deep and vampy red/burgundy. I love how this looks, much thicker than a jelly, this is two thin coats and the glitter can still peek through!

Together these feel like Christmas, but I love them separate like this! Glitterati would be perfect on Valentine's Day, and I am gonna wear the shit out of Viridian through the winter! Great new additions to my collection, and hopefully yours!

Giveaway is below, wish you luck!

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